The 2013 Porto local election was held on 29 September 2013 to elect the members of the Porto City Council.
Rui Moreira, an independent candidate, won the election and became the Mayor of Porto, succeeding Rui Rio. He beat the Socialist candidate, Manuel Pizarro, who got 22.7% of the votes and 3 councillors, and the Mayor of Vila Nova de Gaia, Luís Filipe Menezes, the Social Democratic candidate, who achieved 21.1% of the votes and also got 3 councillors. The Unitary Democratic Coalition, led by Pedro Carvalho, kept its seat in the city council, having a slight drop in the vote share to 7.4%
The Left Bloc failed to win any seats in the city council, just like Nuno Cardoso, the former Mayor of Porto from 1999 to 2002, who ran as an independent.
Rui Moreira failed to achieve an absolute majority, and as such governed with the Socialist Party.
Background In the 2009 election, Rui Rio, candidate for the PSD/CDS coalition, won a third and final term as mayor of Porto, winning 47.5% of the votes and 7 seats, an absolute majority. The Socialist Party, led by Elisa Ferreira, achieved second place with 5 seats and about 35% of the votes. The Unitary Democratic Coalition got 1 seat and 9.8% of the votes.
Electoral system Each party or coalition must present a list of candidates. The winner of the most voted list for the municipal council is automatically elected mayor, similar to first-past-the-post (FPTP). The lists are closed and the seats in each municipality are apportioned according to the D'Hondt method. Unlike in national legislative elections, independent lists are allowed to run.
Parties and candidates Party/Coalition Politicalposition Candidate 2009 result Votes (%) Seats PF Strong Porto Centre-right Luís Filipe Menezes 47.5% PS Socialist Party Centre-left Manuel Pizarro 34.7% CDU Unitary Democratic Coalition Left-wingto far-left Pedro Carvalho7.4% BE Left Bloc Left-wingto far-left José Soeiro 5.0% PCTP Portuguese Workers' Communist Party Far-left José Carlos Santos 0.7% PTP Portuguese Labour Party Center-left José Manuel Pereira NC Nuno Cardoso – Porto of Future Center-left RM Porto, Our Party Center-rightto right-wing Rui Moreira
Opinion polling
Polling firm/Link Fieldwork date Sample size PSDPPMMPT PS CDU BE RM NC Lead 2013 local election 29 Sep 2013 21.1 22.7 7.4 3.639.3 1.1 4.916.6 UCP–CESOP 29 Sep 2013 8,777 22–25 21–24 7–9 3–536–40 – –14–15 Eurosondagem 29 Sep 2013 6,983 19.4–23.2 25.0–28.8 7.0–9.3 4.0–6.230.0–34.2 1.0–1.8 –5.0–5.4 Eurosondagem 23–25 Sep 2013 1,010 26.9 24.1 10.5 4.5 26.5 3.9 3.6 0.4 Aximage 21–25 Sep 2013 602 27.5 28.1 8.3 4.129.2 2.8 1.1 UCP–CESOP 21–23 Sep 2013 1,272 26 24 9 529 2 5 3 IPOM 21–23 Sep 2013 1,000 37.5 26.6 8.1 5.0 14.4 2.5 5.9 10.9 Eurosondagem 6–7 Aug 2013 603 32.1 23.8 8.5 4.5 24.8 3.3 3.0 7.3 Eurosondagem 24–25 Jul 2013 810 32.5 22.5 8.4 4.8 25.2 3.6 3.0 7.3 IPOM 29–30 Jun 2013 1,020 39.6 24.9 4.9 4.7 16.2 3.6 6.1 14.7 Eurosondagem 20–22 May 2013 804 33.0 24.8 10.2 4.3 25.0 2.7 8.0 IPOM 13–15 Apr 2013 2,962 41.0 21.8 9.5 6.0 17.2 4.4 19.2 IPOMSurvey where voters were first asked which party or coalition they would vote for and secondly, which candidate they would cast their ballot for. 17–23 Jan 2013 796 21.2 15.8 1.9 1.9 4.2 55.0 5.4 796 31.7 13.5 12.1 42.6 18.2 2009 local election 11 Oct 2009 47.5 34.7 9.8 5.0 3.112.8
Results Municipal Council
| colspan="11" style="text-align:center;" | |- ! rowspan="2" colspan=2 style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=left|Parties ! rowspan="2" style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|Votes ! rowspan="2" style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|% ! rowspan="2" style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|±pp swing ! colspan="2" style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align="center"|Councillors |- style="background-color:#E9E9E9" ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align="center"|Total ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align="center"|± |- |style="width: 9px" bgcolor=gray align="center" | |align=left|Porto, Our Party |45,411||39.25||||6||
|26,237||22.68||12.0||3||2 |- |style="width: 9px" bgcolor=#FF9966 align="center" | |align=left|Social Democratic / People's Monarchist / Earth |24,366||21.06||||3||2
|8,539||7.38||2.4||1||0
|4,166||3.60||1.4||0||0
|1,255||1.08||||0||
|343||0.30||0.4||0||0
|279||0.24||||0||
|colspan=2 width="330" align=left style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|Total valid |width="50" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|110,596 |width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|95.59 |width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|2.1 |width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|13 |width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|0 |- |colspan=2|Blank ballots |2,922||2.53||1.2||colspan=3 rowspan=4| |- |colspan=2|Invalid ballots |2,180||1.88||0.9 |- |colspan=2 align=left style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|Total |width="50" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|115,698 |width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|100.00 |width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"| |- |colspan=2|Registered voters/turnout ||219,949||52.60||4.2 |- | colspan=11 align=left | Source: Porto 2013 election results
Municipal Assembly
| colspan="11" style="text-align:center;" | |- ! rowspan="2" colspan=2 style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=left|Parties ! rowspan="2" style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|Votes ! rowspan="2" style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|% ! rowspan="2" style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|±pp swing ! colspan="2" style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align="center"|Seats |- style="background-color:#E9E9E9" ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align="center"|Total ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align="center"|± |- |style="width: 9px" bgcolor=gray align="center" | |align=left|Porto, Our Party |40,134||34.69||||15||
|27,413||23.70||10.1||10||4 |- |style="width: 9px" bgcolor=#FF9966 align="center" | |align=left|Social Democratic / People's Monarchist / Earth |23,495||20.31||||8||
|11,436||9.89||1.1||4||0
|5,760||4.98||2.5||2||1
|1,272||1.10||||0||
|330||0.29||||0|| |- |colspan=2 width="330" align=left style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|Total valid |width="50" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|109,840 |width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|94.95 |width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|2.5 |width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|39 |width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|0 |- |colspan=2|Blank ballots |3,426||2.96||1.3||colspan=3 rowspan=4| |- |colspan=2|Invalid ballots |2,416||2.09||1.2 |- |colspan=2 align=left style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|Total |width="50" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|115,682 |width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|100.00 |width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"| |- |colspan=2|Registered voters/turnout ||219,949||52.59||4.2 |- | colspan=11 align=left | Source: Porto 2013 election results
Parish Assemblies
|- class="unsortable" !rowspan=2|Parish!!%!!S!!%!!S!!%!!S!!%!!S!!%!!S !rowspan=2|TotalS |- class="unsortable" style="text-align:center;" !colspan=2 | RM !colspan=2 | PS !colspan=2 | PF !colspan=2 | CDU !colspan=2 | BE |- | style="text-align:left;" | Aldoar, Foz do Douro e Nevogilde | style="background:#808080; color:white;"| 45.8 | 10 | 23.5 | 5 | 17.8 | 3 | 5.5 | 1 | 5.0
| 19 |- | style="text-align:left;" | Bonfim | style="background:#808080; color:white;"| 38.1 | 8 | 21.9 | 4 | 20.2 | 4 | 10.7 | 2 | 4.9 | 1 | 19 |- | style="text-align:left;" | Campanhã | 17.9 | 4 | style="background:#FF66FF; color:white;"| 39.1 | 9 | 20.0 | 4 | 12.6 | 2 | 4.1
| 19 |- | style="text-align:left;" | Cedofeita, Santo Ildefonso, Sé, Miragaia, São Nicolau e Vitória | style="background:#808080; color:white;"| 30.3 | 7 | 24.0 | 6 | 21.6 | 5 | 11.6 | 2 | 6.3 | 1 | 21 |- | style="text-align:left;" | Lordelo do Ouro e Massarelos | style="background:#808080; color:white;"| 38.1 | 8 | 21.9 | 4 | 20.2 | 4 | 10.7 | 2 | 4.5 | 1 | 19 |- | style="text-align:left;" | Paranhos | 26.2 | 6 | 24.3 | 5 | style="background:#FF9966; color:white;"| 29.4 | 7 | 9.5 | 2 | 4.7 | 1 | 21 |- | style="text-align:left;" | Ramalde | style="background:#808080; color:white;"| 35.7 | 8 | 26.0 | 5 | 20.1 | 4 | 7.9 | 1 | 4.8 | 1 | 19 |- class="unsortable" style="background:#E9E9E9" | style="text-align:left;" | Total | style="background:#808080; color:white;"| 31.6 | 49 | 26.0 | 39 | 22.5 | 32 | 9.7 | 12 | 4.7 | 5 | 137 |- | colspan=19 style="text-align:left;" | Source: Election Results
References
Notes
External links 2013 local election results